From the Principal

High Impact Teaching Practice

I have observed throughout my time in education that schools are sometime like huge momentum machines. They sometimes take a while to get going at the start of the year and are often hard to stop as we move through the calendar. By week four, the boilers are fully stoked, and our classes settle into the journey.

Many families would be aware of our system-wide learning focus through the Catholic Education Canberra Goulburn Catalyst initiative. We enter into the third year of pursuing two bold goals; That every student is a competent reader, and high impact teaching practice is visible in every classroom.

In our primary classes students engage in high quality reading lessons each day. Using InitiaLit and a phonics approach students learn the structures of language and the processes of reading as their first lessons each day. In our secondary classes teachers are developing consistent approaches to High Impact Teaching Practices (HITPs).

Fifteen Lumen teachers have engaged with the Teach Well program to enhance their skills. The program runs across the course of the year with regular trips to Canberra for face to face learning with teachers from right across the archdiocese. In this way, the 56 schools of CECG will learn a common language and approach to instruction.

A key goal for Lumen Christi teachers this year is that we develop high participation rates in each of our classes. We are determined that our students are engaged with the learning in their classes and that as we roll through the year, there are no passengers; rather everyone works to lift the learning of each other.

Our Scriptural theme for 2023 “Be kind and Compassionate to one another” (Eph4:32), requires all of us to take an active role in the life of the College. The whole passage exhorts us to do “what is good for building up” (4:29).  So, we seek active engagement, active learning and active collaboration, students, staff and parents as we continue to build up this learning community.

Be the light of Christ.